"We all get heavier as we get older because there's a lot more information
in our heads."
- Vlade Divac, NBA basketball player

"Sometimes they write what I say and not what I mean."
- Baseball Player Pedro Guerrero on reporters

"If you let that sort of thing go on, your bread and butter will be cut right
out from under your feet."
- Ernest Bevin, British foreign minister

"Wait a minute! I'm not interested in the agriculture. I want the military
stuff."
- Senator William Scott (R-Va.) during a Pentagon briefing.

"I've read about foreign policy and studied, I now know the number of continents."
- George Wallace, 1968 presidential campaign

Smoking kills. If you're killed, you've lost a very important part of your
life."
- Brooke Shields

"This planet is our home. If we destroy the planet, we've destroyed our home,
so it is fundamentally important."
- H. Ross Perot

I do not like this word "bomb." It is not a bomb. It is a device that is exploding."
- French ambassador to New Zealand Jacques le Blanc, regarding press coverage
of France's nuclear weapons tests in the Pacific

"I was provided with additional input that was radically different from the
truth. I assisted in furthering that version."
- Colonel Oliver North, from his Iran-Contra testimony

"Do not touch anything unnecessarily. Beware of pretty girls in dance halls
and parks who may be spies, as well as bicycles, revolvers, uniforms, arms,
dead horses, and men lying on roads -- they are not there accidentally."
- Soviet infantry manual, issued in the 1930's

"All you have to do is go down to the bottom of your swimming pool and hold
your breath."
- David Miller, US DOE spokesperson, on protecting yourself from nuclear radiation

"These 45 millimeter pistols are pretty reliable. 9 times out of 10 they will
not jam. 9 times out of 10 they will jam. 50/50."